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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PATHOLOGY TOXICOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 153-162Publisher
BEGELL HOUSE INC
DOI: 10.1615/JEnvironPatholToxicolOncol.v28.i2.70
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asbestos; ferritin; metal transport protein 1; divalent metal transporter 1; duodenal cytochrome b
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We tested die postulate that asbestos exposure alters iron homeostasis in the mouse lung. Crocidolite asbestos (100 mu g intratracheally) was instilled into C5713L/6 mice TiO(2) served as a control exposure. Using iron staining and immunohistochemistry, concentrations of this metal and expression of several iron transport and storage proteins were evaluated at one day and one month following asbestos exposure. Iron was not stainable one day following asbestos instillation but was increased one month later. There was an elevated expression of duodenal cytochrome b (Dcytb), divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT1), and ferritin at both one day and one month after crocidolite exposure. While ferroportin (FPN1) expression was increased one day after asbestos exposure, levels of this metal exporter had returned to baseline at one month. TiO(2) did not affect changes in either the iron concentration or the expression of these iron-related proteins at one day and one month. We conclude that asbestos exposure alters lung iron homeostasis with an accumulation of the metal resulting. Elevations in available iron affect changes in the expression of Dcytb, DMT1, ferritin, and FPN1, which further modify metal homeostasis in the lung.
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